No data, no problem… consumerfed.org/press_releas...

A POV from Canada on U.S. cuts to auto safety agency NHTSA linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%...

Why would the President meet with (and allow into the country) a head of state who refuses to return a person sent to their custody in error?

Great conversation today with Christine Chen Zinner about why and how to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She comes on at the 35 minute mark. www.youtube.com/live/ubASlY9...

Auto safety may not be the highest priority right now, but, here’s our take on why NHTSA matters

Last April I noticed a few people jumped from an EV startup I cover to something called "Slate." There was basically no public info about the company. Its website was even more bare-bones than the one that exists today. But we quickly got a tip: Bezos is involved. techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/i...

This is fucking humiliating

“It’s critical that journalists who cover the presidency—and the Americans who rely on their coverage to stay informed—get unfiltered information free from government control,” Eugene Daniels, president of the WHCA, said in response www.status.news/p/white-hous...

-Trump bans the AP from the White House press pool -Judge orders AP be allowed back into the pool -Trump admin continues to block AP from the pool, and then censors the pool report noting the AP was turned away. Great reporting from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/white-hous...

Data about your driving often ends up in the hands of companies that use it to influence insurance premiums & auto loan terms. “There’s just a sea of data floating around and there are very few safeguards about how and where it’s shared,” says Michael DeLong, @consumerfed.bsky.social bit.ly/4kuUaE9

NEW: I helped Brian Krebs trace the background of one of Elon Musk's top loyalists, Branden Spikes, head of IT at X, who spent 2 mo at DOGE. Spikes and his ex-wife were involved with Russian diaspora websites and groups linked to pro-Kremlin KSORS players, Russian state media while he was at SpaceX.

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter: